Chapter 168: Perfection
Wangxi Mountain.
It's the mountain next to the Tang House.
Even if he hadn't read Han Ye's monthly diary, Tang Ling knew in his heart that in order to find the final answer, he had to go to Wangxi Mountain.
Because the only mountain range in Wanghe County is Wangxi Mountain, which is next to the Tang House.
Tang Ling left in a dashing manner, but he also did one last thing for so many unjust souls who died under Han Ye, that is, to leave a letter, clearly stating that there were dozens of bones under the pond at the entrance of the Tang Mansion, hoping to salvage them and bury them alive.
This is not what Han Ye recorded in the monthly diary, it is just a conclusion that Tang Ling deduced based on various clues.
In short, it was very troublesome to dispose of so many bones, and the only best option was this pond in front of the door.
As for why this is done? Tang Ling didn't have an answer, it was clearly just a dream, a mission, but after being trapped for a long time, there was also a feeling that it was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and he was experiencing history.
Tang Ling's feet were fast.
Going up the mountain from the foot of the mountain next to the Tang house, it was only an hour before I walked several miles and climbed to the top of a hill in Wangxi Mountain.
At this time, looking back, the entire Qingxi Town was in full view, but in the end it was far away and small.
And the dark samurai uniform on his body changed again, and he changed back to the regular combat uniform he had before falling asleep.
This also shows that he no longer needs to cover up his identity in the task of Qingxi Town, and the next thing is the core of the incident.
There are few clues.
In addition to mentioning the scorching place and a hidden mountain stream, Han Ye's monthly diary does not describe the specific geographical location much.
Wangxi Mountain is not small, it is a mountain range, if you want to search thoroughly, according to Tang Ling's footsteps, I am afraid it will take two or three days.
But the time given for this mission was three days.
So, according to the rules of the Dream Domain, the countdown begins from the time there are only 'twelve hours' left.
Now Tang Ling's remaining time is ten hours, and it is impossible for him to search the mountain.
And that scorched place, after twenty years, should have been covered with new vegetation, and the idea of finding a wasteland on a high place should be dispelled as soon as possible.
In this way, Tang Ling's time is very tight, not only very tight, but also very fatal.
Because the Dream Domain revealed its 'hideous' minions at the end of the day.
Completion - 80 percent, Grade E, you can opt out of Dream Domain, no reward.
Completion - 90 percent, Rating D, you can choose to exit the Dream Domain, you can get compensatory rewards, related dream items.
Completion - 100 percent, grade C, you can choose to exit the Dream Domain, reward a Dream Coin, and gain access to the Secret Shop.
Below the grade of E, the completion degree is less than 80%, and the dream seed qualification will be cancelled.
This is the information Tang Ling got.
It's terrible.,100% completion.,Only then can you get a C evaluation.,Dream Coin can also get one.。
In this way, Kun is really a 'liar', he makes Tang Ling think that he can enter the secret shop every time he sleeps, and also makes Tang Ling feel that the things in the secret shop are very cheap.
It's really bad, and he doesn't look like a bad old man.
Therefore, it was Tang Ling who was innocent.
However, Tang Ling was not in a hurry, and carefully analyzed this information, such as compensatory rewards, and related dream items were very interesting.
What does that mean? Each dream also has a special item that can affect reality, which means that it can be found in the dream.
It's luck that you can't find it, but if you can't find it, after the dream ends, a reward will be given for the related dream.
For example, this Qingxi Town dream, Tang Ling guessed that it should be related to martial arts and other things.
This is good! Let Tang Ling not finish the dream this time, and look forward to the next dream.
In addition, Tang Ling also smelled a smell of 'protection'.
Because in the last article of the completion rules, it is stated that if the evaluation is below E, the completion degree is less than 80%, and the dream seed qualification will be cancelled.
That's protection.
Because it doesn't mention what if the degree of completion is less than 60 percent? What about less than 40 percent? Will there be a more severe punishment? It's entirely possible.
Otherwise, in such a dangerous dream, the dream is tired, and if you want to get rid of the qualification, you can completely drill the leak.
Will Dream Domain leave such a big hole? No, it can't be.
Judging from the fact that the injuries and deaths of the dream can be mapped to reality, the dream domain can easily erase the dream species, so.... This shows that the first time you fall into a dream, there are some preferential treatments, but the next time you fall into a dream, maybe it will be dangerous, even if you are not killed by various dangers in the dream, it is very likely to be directly wiped out by the dream domain.
Although this is just an assumption, such an assumption makes Tang Ling not so much looking forward to falling asleep.
Thinking about these questions, Tang Ling still looked very leisurely, he was in the mood to walk while picking off some damp, looking a little slimy dirt, put it in his bag, and soon gathered a large group, not too heavy.
It looks exactly like a playful child.
"Almost." Tang Ling patted the bag that was already bulging, and then used the sunlight to judge the direction, and then quickly made a choice, chose a direction, and drove in that direction.
His figure is flexible like an ape in the mountains and forests, the mountains and forests of ancient China are really 'gentle' compared to the manglin of the Purple Moon Era, there are no dangerous beasts, mutated insects, and no mutated plants will choose people to eat, for Tang Ling, who has been in the manglin since he was a child, hunting, is there any difference between peace here?
No, so Tang Ling's speed was like a gray shadow, which was difficult to capture.
In this vast mountain forest, is ten hours a tight time? It's abundant, even if there are few clues, but there are clues after all, isn't it?
The officers and soldiers searched for three days, but on the first day they found the scorched place, how fast can the officers and soldiers travel?
Han Ye wrote in the monthly diary that he had already discovered the cave that night, even if Han Ye was familiar with Wangxi Mountain, even if Han Ye was a person who practiced martial arts, his foot distance was much faster than that of officers and soldiers, but how much faster? Faster than Tang Ling?
Tang Ling has a precise instinct, so he went up the mountain, and the first time he chose a hill with high terrain and went straight up, in order to delineate a general range that can be reached in a day through the calculation of precise instinct.
Then, there is another clue that is extremely important, that the 'alien object' is coming from the south to the north, and the direction in which it will appear is very fixed.
So, ten hours, what's the panic? According to Tang Ling's current ability, he can run for several hours at the fastest speed of 100 meters in the previous civilized human race, and he will not be tired for several hours, which is still a way to save physical strength.
With the dried meat of a second-level fierce beast in his mouth, Tang Ling often chose to jump directly among the trees in order to save time.
He would stop from time to time and chew and digest a second-level fierce beast meat, because according to Tang Ling's plan, what he was looking for was not a C-level evaluation, but a B-level, A-level, or even S-level evaluation hidden in the shadows, if any, that the Dream Domain did not give.
In dreams he grows.
In fact, last night, as soon as he felt that his body could digest and transform, he would chew a piece of jerky.
As the body is stronger, the more he can endure, and it's a very good virtuous cycle.
And in the realm of dreams, the most efficient way to do is not to eat too much at a time, the most appropriate amount, and then digest it quickly, and then continue... Of course, the effect is even better if it is accompanied by a lot of exercise.
Many of the truths are not profound, they are the same, and there is no difference between them and the muscle-building training of pre-civilizations.
Therefore, Tang Ling did not save his physical strength at all, he would use everything to squeeze his own extreme growth.
As he shuttled through the mountains and forests at extreme speed, the search area began to get smaller and smaller.
Gradually, the mountains and forests began to become quieter.
Slowly, the temperature became a bit cooler, as the woods were so dense that sunlight barely shone in.
This is already the third key point of 'drawing circles', Tang Ling moved his nose, suddenly slowed down, and swooped down from under the tree.
At the same time, a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes also carried a 'demonic wind' and sprang out of a dense bush.
This is the tiger of the pre-civilization? Compared to the tigers of the Purple Moon Era, it is a kitten.
After Tang Ling landed, he rushed over directly, and the big tiger had just raised its claws when it was directly punched in the face by Tang Ling's fierce punch.
At this time, Tang Ling's punch definitely had a strength of nearly 1,500 kilograms, and theoretically a fist force of 800 kilograms could kill a cow, of course, a pre-civilized cow.
The tiger's cheeks were directly sunken, but the strange thing was that it was like it was fine, and its big mouth, which had been twisted, bit straight towards Tang Ling's arm.
This was the result that Tang Ling had long expected, he didn't dodge at all, and directly pinched the tiger's jaw the moment the tiger bit it.
Such a big tiger was directly lifted up by Tang Ling, a young man who looked a little thin, and began to struggle frantically in a standing posture.
"Hehe, this is how the 'Uno Kuni' came?" Tang Ling observed the tiger, which was originally supposed to be golden, with a hint of obvious gray.
Then, his hand pinching the tiger's chin twisted violently to the left, and the tiger's neck made a 'snap' sound, the cervical vertebrae broke directly, and the frantically struggling tiger stopped writhing.
At this time, Tang Ling threw down the tiger corpse, but did not leave immediately, but quickly took out a ball of soil he had collected from his bag, and sealed the tiger's seven orifices as quickly as possible.
The tiger's carcass began to swell strangely, and soon a bulging pouch appeared in its abdomen, scurrying around in it, and then began to struggle frantically again.
The fur of that piece turned up, revealing the gray-white skin of the tiger corpse, and the gray-white skin began to quickly become transparent.
But Tang Ling didn't do nothing, at this time, he had already quickly made a torch by drilling wood to make fire, and then directly ignited the tiger corpse.
The fire was raging, and there were a few strange 'fluttering' sounds among the tiger's carcass, and then it fell completely silent.
Tang Ling understood that although the way he chose was ancient, it was useful.
But the next trip is afraid that it will not be so easy, because Tang Ling raised his head, in a sense, he has been surrounded.
Three wolves, two wild boars, a tiger, and two jungle leopards appeared beside him, no, the correct name should be corpse wolf, corpse pig....
This is just the beginning, right?
Tang Ling hooked his finger at the corpse tiger defiantly, and with the roar of the corpse tiger, a battle began again.
It was a battle without any suspense, but in just five minutes, there were a few more corpses on the ground.
Not every corpse Tang Ling had time to seal their seven-hole chrysanthemums, but as soon as something similar to a devil fungus appeared, there would be a strange process of forming and condensing, and then it would disperse.
Just light it before that.
In fact, the devil fungus is afraid of fire, and Tang Ling is just guessing, just like the way to dispose of corpses in the Purple Moon Era must be cremation, on the surface, it is to burn the corpse to ashes, but in fact, is it also a way to isolate the devil fungus?
Convinced of this, Tang Ling was even more at ease.
He found that if it weren't for the animals being controlled, he might have missed the place.
In common sense, even if new vegetation appears in a burned area, it must be different from the surrounding jungle, the most obvious being 'new' and 'low' to the surrounding jungle.
Here is the complete opposite, with large trees shading the sky and sun, the bushes are lush, and even the weeds are denser than the surroundings.
This only means that there are plenty of nutrients here, although this should not be the whole reason... Thinking about it, Tang Ling drew his knife and dug under a tree, and the result was just as he expected, there were seven or eight half-decomposed corpses under the tree.
A terrible picture has unfolded in front of Tang Ling's eyes, the cemetery of human beings, or the remote villages of human beings, the corpses controlled by these devil fungi, the parasitic living dead, in the dark of the night, staggering up the mountain, and then being used as food, as nourishment....
If it is allowed to develop, this will be an even more terrifying era than the Purple Moon Era.
These fungi, Tang Ling has long speculated, of course they are not the devil fungi of the Purple Moon Era, they are more advanced life forms than the devil fungus, they are intelligent, conscious, can live with the living (Han Ye), can control the dead, they also seem to be able to obey the command.
It's terrible, and when it comes to the word 'organized', it's scary!
The center of this command is 'Mushroom', because it's the mother!
If you kill Han Ye by yourself, it should be completely crazy, and from now on it will encroach and occupy this world, I am afraid that this is its only goal, because except for Han Ye, it has no feelings for any human being, and it is impossible to have feelings.
Therefore, the highest difficulty of the Qingxi Town mission in the Dream Domain has appeared - to completely destroy them.
Fundamentally, this is impossible. Because 'mushroom' doesn't know how many larvae have been bred over the years, assuming that each larvae has the possibility of becoming a mother, sparing one is an endless disaster.
Think about it, if you have to face an overwhelming number of spores flying in the sky in the end, even if there are a hundred Tang Ling, you can't completely wipe them out.
In addition, there are still doubts about the matter, that is- what kind of existence is that monkey-like corpse?
But it doesn't matter, Tang Ling has to accept this challenge! There is always a line between life and death, isn't it?
Tang Ling held a long knife in one hand and a torch in the other, walking forward in this forest that seemed a little dark and terrifying, and there were corpses under every tree and every piece of land.
It's like the only point with light, the only glimmer of hope.
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Ten hours have passed, and three hours have passed unconsciously.
On the road that Tang Ling had walked on, there were piles of corpses of various animals everywhere, how could he be mad? In this dense forest, even a bird is parasitized!
This kind of indiscriminate 'elimination' made Tang Ling's heart full of anger, and people who had not experienced the end of the world would not understand this emotion.
Even if it wasn't for the same reason, Tang Ling seemed to see a shadow of the collapse of a civilization in it, just like the previous civilization had silently collapsed.
This is a dream, this is just a dream, Tang Ling reminded himself again and again.
But the wind blowing, the leaves swaying in the wind, and the corpses buried under the trees seemed to have some unwilling gestures, all of which created a kind of reality for Tang Ling.
Of course, this kind of truth can't confuse Tang Ling, but it makes Tang Ling involuntarily substitute into the Purple Moon Era of reality from time to time.
In the Purple Moon Era, human beings still exist, and in this dream, if they do not achieve the most perfect degree of completion, human beings will definitely be subverted.
What a terrible result this is, will the Purple Moon Age also usher in such a result?
A trace of inexplicable emotion grew in Tang Ling's heart, and also magnified the flame of anger, he kept searching for the so-called mountain stream in Han Ye's so-called Yue Ji, but this scorched land was almost all over by him, and he didn't see any mountain streams.
What kind of terrain is a mountain stream? Specifically, a valley with a stream of water ditches, how can such an obvious area be hidden?
The sky was even darker, and the sound of torches crackling and burning was slightly harsh, which made Tang Ling, who had always been calm, slightly anxious.
"Where are you hiding?" Tang Ling simply sat down and took several deep breaths to calm himself down.
At this time, water seems to be the only hint, and hiding these two words has become a hint.
Tang Ling struggled to combine these two keywords, and then suddenly jumped up from the ground and ran towards a certain place in this once scorched place.
In this place, it is a place of bushes, and it looks so inconspicuous, the only thing that stands out is that there is a half-human-sized hole in the bushes here.
Tang Ling used a torch to shine through the hole, of course, it was just a random photo, and found that it was not big, so he let it go.
He was bound by common sense.
Because common sense is that a mountain stream is a valley with water, and the terrain is downward, the correct way to find it is to find the whole place and go down to the 'slope' side downward, and you will naturally find the mountain stream.
It is difficult for normal people to associate a cave with a mountain stream, let alone that the cave is on the edge of a scorched place, near a hill, and it is an upward trend.
But what if the mountain stream is hidden behind this strangely shaped hill and can only be discovered through this hole?
If you look closely, this hill is very strange, and it is said that it is a hill, and it is more like a dirt bag that has been flattened in half.
Because twenty years have passed, it has been covered with dense vegetation again, and it cannot be found without careful inspection, and its top is flat.
This made Tang Ling seem to see the scene when the alien object fell to the ground twenty years ago, it fell on this hill, and the things that leaked out poured into this scorched land and the valley behind the hill, and then slowly tilted sideways, and finally fell into the valley with a bang.
This is it!
Tang Ling suppressed the excitement in his heart, and bent into this cave with a half-human entrance.
Shortly after he entered, he noticed a boulder standing on its side, just in front of the passage that could penetrate the hole, leaving only a gap that one could only pass by leaning sideways. Because of this, from the outside, the entrance to this cave is a small cave, and there is no road at all.
This is also the reason why the officers and soldiers missed the 'truth' back then, and Tang Ling almost missed the truth.
Finding the way, Tang Ling's slightly anxious mood slowly calmed down.
After passing through the gap, the pitch-black cavern was wet, and it was full of huge bats.
Needless to say, these bats were no longer normal bats, and after Tang Ling entered, these bats began to attack Tang Ling frantically.
At this time, Tang Ling would not waste the opportunity, what is the difference between these extremely fast flying things and the test of neural reaction speed?
In fact, Tang Ling also heard that this was a way to train nerve reaction speed in the No. 17 safety zone, but the fee was not low, and a 'poor ghost' like Tang Ling naturally had no way to enjoy it.
These bats undoubtedly gave Tang Ling a chance to train.
Therefore, Tang Ling brandished a long knife and fought all the way, with his excellent nervous reaction speed, these bats were really not enough to see, the trouble was just to burn them in time for every one killed.
Under such deliberate self-training, this dark cave slowly became a glimmer of light.
The light gradually brightened, accompanied by the sound of the wind blowing into the cave.
There are no more bats, and mountain streams are close at hand.
Tang Ling, who had already gone through two fierce battles in a row, couldn't wait to reveal the final answer.
Picking up his torch, he quickened his pace and ran to the exit of the cave.
But as soon as he stepped out of the cave, before he had time to take a look at what the mountain stream mentioned by Han Ye looked like, a green claw that looked a little thin, but with a feeling of steel and iron bones, suddenly hit Tang Ling's face like the wind without warning.
With such a fast speed, Tang Ling fell on his back and barely avoided this attack, but he didn't even have time to catch his breath when a half-human-sized green object rushed towards him.
What is this?!